Opinion

Letter: Obscene books in Bixby

April 21, 2022 Nancy Huff

Last year, Janice Danforth, faced opposition when she addressed her concerns about two books, she found in the Bixby public school library. The books, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and Thirteen Reasons Why contain explicit sexual content. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl contained over 200 uses of the “F” word and…

Letter: Seat belt safety tip

April 21, 2022 Richard C. Morgan

I want to share a simple but life-saving discovery. It is a seat belt tip. The next time you drive your car, do this. Fasten your seat belt and then take hold of the strap across your chest and pull it forward until it stops and let it go back to its place. Now try…

Editorial: Stitt signs Save Women’s Sports

April 14, 2022

A sportswriter at a liberal local newspaper lamented the fact that Gov. Kevin Stitt signed the Save Women’s Sports bill that prevent biological males who masquerade as females from competing in women’s sports. He couldn’t make a rational argument over the patent unfairness of men competing against girls so he tried to rationalize that this…

Editorial: Disney pushes transgenderism

April 14, 2022

The strategy by the Walt Disney Company to totally embrace the homosexual lifestyle and to oppose a Florida law that prohibits teachers from talking about sex to students from kindergarten to the third grade could have an economic impact on the giant entertainment company. And even Disney employees think so. Most Floridians – and most…

Editorial: Destroying America’s energy

April 14, 2022

On December 15, 2021, the United States Geological Survey released an estimate for the amount of oil and natural gas reserves for the Bakken and Three Forks Formations in the Williston Basin of Montana and North Dakota. That estimate includes 4.3 billion barrels of unconventional oil and 4.9 trillion cubic feet of unconventional natural gas…

Letter: America needs to turn to God

April 14, 2022 Mary Wesley

In Matthew 18:1-11 in the sermon on the child text, Jesus spoke about who was greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. He called a little child unto Him and said, “Except you be converted and become as a little child, you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven. But he that humbles himself as a…

Editorial: More bills but more dead babies

April 7, 2022

Abortion is murder and no matter how many laws are passed by the Oklahoma Legislature, until abortion is legally recognized as murder and outlawed, innocent livers will be lost. The Oklahoma House passed HB4327, by Rep. Wendi Stearman, R-Collinsville, which parallels the Texas Heartbeat bill. That Texas bill is causing Texas women to come to…

Editorial: Confirmation double standards

April 7, 2022

When Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanagh was in confirmation hearings before the U.S. Senate, Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey, he asked the nominee if he drank on the weekends and weekdays while Kavanagh was in high school. What? Kavanaugh wasn’t sure how to respond to such a obscure and irrelevant question. Booker wasn’t looking for…

Editorial: Natural gas is truly clean energy

April 7, 2022

Environmentalists and the mainstream news media are lying when they claim that natural gas is not clean. It is. About 40% of the generation of electricity in the United States is by natural gas. The Environmental Information Administration rates natural gas as a relatively clean burning fossil fuel. The people in the natural gas business…

Editorial: Tulsa Beacon endorsements

March 31, 2022

School races set for April 5 are more important than ever as progressive school leaders battle for the minds of our children. Here are our recommendations for the April 5 votes. Tulsa Public Schools Office 7 Tim Harris, the former Tulsa County District Attorney, is a conservative Republican. Harris has also been endorsed by former…